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Summary: Buy the Rio instead
Review: I got this mp3 player because CNET.COM gave it a 9 rating. Boy was I suprised. The darn thing will not read any mp3 that I burned. I even tried using 3 different cd burning programs which resulted in hours of fustration. I returned it within 3 hrs of opening the darn thing. My friend has a rio sonic blue 100 which
has no problem reading any cd's that I burned. I will get a Rio as soon as I get a refund for this player.
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Summary: The best
Review: This is the greatest cd mp3 player available! I don't have enough words to describe this piece of art but I'll try...Pros a) Backlight
b) BIG screen
c) Cheap
d) Long battery life (The batteries included seemed to last forever!)
e) Excellent MP3 playback quality (8 to 320 kbps!)
f) Yes, it reads ID3, but also it can read FIF
g) Equalizer
h) 8 minute anti-skip
i) No analog volume controls
j) Navigation functions
k) Playlist
l) It looks cool Cons a) No fast forward in MP3 mode
b) Junky headphones
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Summary: Does not support packet writing as in my RioVolt PSX100:(
Review: I don't think there is anything on the market as RioVolt's products. My player plays regular CDs, Waves, WMA, & MP3s burned on to CDs, and something the TDK doesn't do - play songs dragged and dropped using Roxio DirectCD. This gives me chance to add/delete songs I get tired of and gives me full control of the content on the CD. Moreover, I save time as I don't have to burn the whole CD each time. It takes me seconds to drag and drop each song or remove song(s). Rio ROCKS!
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Summary: Fun toy. UI could use work. Fragile.
Review: I love being able to storea dozen albums on a single cd. The concept is great here. The execution leaves something to be desired. When you get this much music in one place, you need a good UI top be able to pick out what you want to hear. The mojo does a decent good job of this, but I was expecting much better from the reviews. The main display when playing music is rather disappointing -- only giving one line of 4 to show the name of the music playing, and 3 lines for other [stuff]. It lacks some basic play modes like 'play everything shuffled once and then stop.' The battery life was pretty short, and it would generally kill the batteries when I wasn't listening to it b/c it had started playing in my bag -- my bad for forgetting the hold switch but the design doesn't help. It's also quite FRAGILE. I tried taking it with me on bike rides and such for a short while, but it really just couldn't deal. (I'm talking road-bike rides, not off-road. This wasn't even a real torture test.) About 2 months after I got it, it started going down hill -- not playing some cd's. Getting stuck in the middle. Now, at the tender age of 4 months, it's all but worthless. It can't play mp3 cd's for more than about 20 minutes before getting lost, and even audio cd's are starting to fail. It will play for a while and then just grind the laser head back and forth and spin the disk up and down. I know amazoners tend not to consider very highly reviews complaining about broken hardware. But I think if you read, you'll see a trend with this one. I treated it very gently, and it didn't last long at all.
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Summary: The best Thing that ever happened to me
Review: When i bought this mp3-cd player i was hoping i got my money's worth and i definately did. this is the best mp3- cd player, I,ve dropped this thing who knows how many times on concrete and it does'nt make a difference at all. If your looking for a good mp3-cd player this is the best one. A must have.
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Summary: Great MP3 CD Player, But be warned....
Review: I've owned both the Creative Labs Jukebox (6 GB) and the TDK Mojo. Let me begin by saying that hard disk music players are the best if you have the money, but they are hard to navigate. Even with the best navigation software, if you own over 100 Albums like me, you will always have a hard time finding that one particular song. With Mp3-CD's, it is MUCH EASIER. Punk rock CDs are burned seperately from the Disco CD's, and it is so much easier to navigate that way. Sound Quality:
A very important aspect. Personally, the Creative Nomad Jukebox was better sound wise. It also had the ability to record from it's inputs at up to 96Khz! I recorded a few live shows 'hot' from the jukebox, and it sounded great. Now, the TDK Mojo's sound quality was good, don't get me wrong. I just found the bass to cut itself short (Even with Sony Professional series hadphones) and the midrange to be somewhat tinny, but not annoying. Overall, the Nomad wins. Battery Life:
Don't believe what anyone else tells you: If you play music at least 3 hours a day like I do with the TDK mojo, it will last over 4 days! Buy rechargeable battery's if you want, but i don't see a need yet. The Jukebox lasted 4 hours if you were lucky. This is not splitting hairs. Battery life makes as much of a difference as sound quality. The TDk Mojo wins, hands down. Looks:
The TDK Mojo looks cool! It reminds me of the first CD players in the 80's: Hard looking, and metal button controls. The backlit display is gorgeous, but theres a little icon that looks like a VU meter... It is not a real VU meter. It just bobs up and down when music is playing. Also, the controls are spaced well, and you can navigate the Mojo in the dark. Pros:
Cool features (Such as ID3 tag reading) set it apart from all other MP3 CD players.
Great looks
Good battery life
Made by TDK! Heck, I dropped my Mojo at least 3 times on concrete. Didnt hurt a thing! Cons:
I nearly destroyed my headphone jack. IT IS VERY FRAGILE. That is a very serious design flaw in my opinion.
Sub par sound quality. Don't expect the Audigy experience from this player, ok?
Unusually low Signal to noise ratio. The "hiss" in the background. Don't worry, it's not as bad as tape.
Laser is not accurate, has trouble reading CD's, especially Audio CDs. So all in all, you get what you pay for. I believe the TDK Mojo is still a bargain, but if you have money lying around get yourself the Nomad Jukebox 3. It's coming out in a little bit, with firewire, USB, and 20 GB...
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Summary: Even a 14-year old (myself) can tell you this is junk.
Review: Originally, I purchased this mp3-cd player as a replacement for my RioVolt SP250, which was unfortunately broken by my clumsy oaf of a brother. I purchased this based on the testimonials that people gave regarding the fact that the TDK MOJO is a superior player. Whoever these people may be, they obviously have never owned a RioVolt SP250. First of all, the MOJO lasts 10 hours on 2 AA batteries, which is mediocre compared to the 20 hours the RioVolt can allot. The MOJO also only comes with one type of headphones, as opposed to the two the SP250 comes with. It also has no carrying case, no really customizable equalizer, no FM tuner, no M3U playlist support, no audio output level display, no upgradeable firmware, no remote control, no MAC supported audio managment software, and no 1-year warranty (however, with the SP250, this warranty does not account for oafish brothers). The so-called track memory is a joke; also, there is no continuous backlight when the AC adapter is plugged in. ALSO, the MOJO has no actual menu-you can just change around the options; and yet another thing: I could not find the "customizable" equalizer, so I was left with mediocre sound. I dont know what people have seen before when it comes to track navigation, but the MOJO falls short of its expectations. If anything, it is only equal to the navigational ability of the SP250. Also, not to go unnoticed is the fact that the MOJO thing is just plain ugly.
After purchasing this item and eagerly bringing it into my room, popping an 8-hour long mp3-cd into it, and pressing play, i was shocked when all my unit was capable of was making an atrocious noise and counting how many songs were on the disc. At which point, my jaw nearly dropped to the floor. I had 12GB of mp3's that i backed up on to cd's to give my 120gb hard drive a break. No longer being able to play these cd's meant that I had to personally transfer every song into its former place and reformat every cd with the provided software. All in all, the process took me 2 days, without rest, to finish. After the task was done, i was finally able to pop a "new" cd into my player and fall fast asleep.
In my dream, my nightmare, more like, i dreamed of a world of mediocrity. Oh wait, this is a world of mediocrity, and this MP3-CD player is proof of this fact. My advice to you, dear reader-buy the RioVolt SP250, because it is worth the steep cost. Belive me, because I miss mine dearly.
-Stunning Development! The cds i spent days burning now DONT WORK in this pathetic mass of bile that is somehow called an mp3-cd player. It does not recognize packet writing/logging on cds. GOOD LORD! I will promptly trade this noisy, annoying, worthless heap of electronic junk to Best Buy ...
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Summary: TDK CD MP3
Review: excellent unit. only drawback was fairly low battery life, but that is solved with rechargeable NIMH's. I have had it for 4 months and use it biking twice a day for an hour. Have dropped it 3 times onto fairly hard surfaces, and it still runs great. I like the headphones, good sound and comfortable. The ONLY WAY TO GO for audiophiles who do not want to pay ... a lot of MP3 sounds without a lot of file management and download tasks. I convert my cd's and cdr's to MP3 on my computer using CD EX and burn them to cdr's using EZ CD CREATOR.
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Summary: Not The Most Features, But I Just Like This Thing A Lot
Review: This CD-MP3 player doesn't have a remote, and does not charge batteries with its AC jack. It does not have a very useful equalizer, the settings make little difference. Reviewers say you cannot run with it, you can't, but you can sure ride the stationary bike without skipping once, and I could walk at a moderate pace on the treadmill with it in my belt pouch. Although I haven't weight-lifted with it yet, weight-lifting is also probably ok since it is usually as low impact as walking. It cannot search within a song in Mp3 mode, it can on an audio CD. It has a good customizable backlight; It has good sound quality; it has a playlist which creates itself as you play songs; It recognizes any kbps I have used so far; it responds instantly, unlike other players; the search function is more than useful; the software it comes with is MusicMatch 6.0 and TDK Navitrack, with Navitrack you have to edit each song manually, but once you link it to your burner it installs the descriptions exactly as you listed it in Navitrack, ex. Artist-Title-Genre.mp3 If you name the tracks like this with the hyphens, it will list the songs in any of those 3 catagories, including ANY word you use for genre! All you have to do is make sure you put in the exact same artist spelling to have all songs by that artist, and genre, etc. The manual edit is a pain, but you only have to do it once for each song, if that; it has a line OUT; it has a HOLD button; of all the CDs I tried, it only had trouble with a single burned mp3 disk, all other mp3 disks were perfectly recognized. All in all, for [the price] and a ..rebate, I love this thing. The funnest thing is having all your songs in the directories you want, Navitrack puts them in perfect, as entered. Having the Creative Nomad will prolly feel better at first, but later when you see how hard it is to use the thing, ex. slow controls, the expensive models may not seem so great after all. The Creative may have more features, but this Mojo is just such a solid and easy to use product, that you probably will not be able to bring yourself to return it for a more [costly] model because you like it so much!
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Summary: Doesn't do what I want.
Review: I used streamripper to put internet radio shows on a MP3-CD. I just wanted to listen to a internet show later in my car with the ability to read the ID3 tags. (Nice for knowing and actually buy the right music this time!) CD had 404 files stored in 8 folders each with a subfolder of incomplete. I took care to burn cd in natural order of files so the radio show songs would play in the same order. This is very important because streamripper cuts the files too late and puts the starting part of a song in the previous song's file. I did not want to use the Navigator software to alter tags so it took longer to spin up and read the disk. It would've reordered the songs. What's worst is there's nothing in the instructions as to any specific way to cut the disks. After 25 days of testing various formats and folder structures, I returned the MoJo because I could not figure out how to get it to do this work for me. I even tried putting lots of show in one big file. Get very Few ID3 tags and spent most of my time trying to go back to where I stopped that way. I also thought that ID3 display should also be on the remote and scroll through all the information.
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